Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata cast iron owl " "Honest Use of Materials"

" "Honest Use of Materials" and "Changes in Modes of Living"

are the result of the resourceful use of shoe polish

shrubs and grasses are pretty great too

The translucent green marble eyes

Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata cast iron owl " "Honest Use of Materials"I have a vague notion that this drawing may have been done by Swedish artist Beata Mrtensson (1880 1956), who was best known as the first female artist at Gustavsberg porcelain factory, 19081910, where she designed bowls, vases and tableware. She then moved to Paris and later lived in New York, which is when in my theory would guess she did this, before returning to Sweden in 1953. The signature is close to the one Mrtensson used she to sign her